Wind
Maryland set to adopt one of the biggest offshore wind goals in US
Governor Wes Moore is poised to sign the POWER Act, which calls for building 8.5 gigawatts of offshore wind by 2031 to meet the state’s clean energy targets.
Maria Gallucci is a clean energy reporter at Canary Media, where she covers hard-to-decarbonize sectors and efforts to make the energy transition more affordable and equitable. She was most recently a contributing writer for Grist and IEEE Spectrum, and was previously a staff reporter for InsideClimate News, Mashable, and Mexico City newspapers. Her reporting has taken her across the Americas and inside cargo ships, power plants, and nuclear waste facilities. She was the 2017-2018 Energy Journalism Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin and a 2021 TED speaker. Maria graduated from Ohio University and now resides in Brooklyn, New York.
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Electric vehicles
A persistent EV challenge looms over NY Auto Show: Charging
Amid flashy new electric models on display at one of the nation's top car events, experts worried that EVs will struggle to go mainstream without a lot more places to plug in.
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Marine transport
Video: Canary talks ammonia-powered ships on the Weather Channel
Watch reporter Maria Gallucci explain why shipping giants and startups are looking to ammonia as an alternative to dirty diesel.
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Carbon capture
A buzzy new carbon removal plant is catching and releasing CO2
Global Thermostat's demonstration unit was announced with much fanfare, but the company is still sorting out what to do with the carbon dioxide it captures.
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Geothermal
This Texas geothermal startup is storing energy in the ground
Sage Geosystems says its earthen "battery" system, now undergoing pilot tests in Texas, could be used to store energy to help balance power grids.
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Wind
Chart: Which countries added the most new wind power in 2022?
Supply-chain issues and market uncertainty slowed progress last year, but global wind power capacity still inched closer to the 1-terawatt milestone.
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Transportation
NYC adopts e-bike rules with focus on fire safety and equity
The new policies aim to make it easier for low-income residents to access high-quality models, without banning the zero-emissions devices many workers depend on.
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Marine transport
Amogy lands $139M to scale ammonia tech for zero-emissions cargo ships
The startup is working to launch an ammonia-powered vessel in New York as the global shipping industry searches for cleaner fuels.
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Clean industry
An Arizona plant will pull CO2 from the air and trap it in concrete
The first-of-its-kind initiative by CarbonBuilt, Aircapture and Block-Lite aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from concrete production by 70 percent.
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Fossil fuels
Bay Area officials vote to ditch new gas furnaces and water heaters
Starting in 2027, San Francisco Bay Area regulators will require appliances to have zero emissions of nitrogen oxides, a move that effectively bans gas.
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